Here is another digital offering. Surprise, surprise it is another pot of flowers. I promise I will try to mix in something different. The title of this one is “A Red Urn of Flowers.”
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Daily Timeout for Art #29
Today’s art entitled “Flowers in Yellow Pot” is done in entirely colored pencil. I must admit while I like the final result using the blue paper did not give the pop of color I was looking for.
The Red Flower – My First Digital Art
A piece of art work I created when playing with a program called Art Studio. While it is a rough picture it is a new beginning for me.
Daily timeout for Art #22
I must say the finished product is not what I envisioned before I created this piece. The picture as you can see is a simple outline of a cat on black entitle The Cat. I guess what I don’t care about are the colors in the background and the way it appears to me as unrefined. I have done another version done in acrylics on Pinterest. Neither of these pictures I am enamored with and I know sometime in the future I will revisit them and redo them.
Back to the Drawing Board
A good article on the need to see values (the artistic kind} in all the art work we create. Unless you’re creating a monochrome painting values help a painting pop.
A month ago I posted a drawing of an enormous hornet’s nest that took both a considerable amount of time to draw, as well as space on my kitchen table while doing so. Shortly thereafter a friend suggested that I had drawn it upside down! The opening on a hornet’s nest is typically at the bottom which, apparently, helps keep rain out, and I had drawn it at the top. Solving the problem wasn’t a simple matter of turning the drawing around— the shading and composition simply didn’t hold up when the drawing was flipped. So, with reluctance, I went back to the drawing board, as they say, for another go.
Although this piece took just about as long as the first one—15+ hours over the course of two weeks— I was able to take what I learned the last time and push the drawing further. The best part of…
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Four Logical Reasons Why Other People Seem To Like Our “Failed” Paintings (Or Drawings)
Great post all artists need to read
It’s a long-standing cliché that artists are their own worst critics. There’s a lot of truth to this, if my own pessimistic thoughts are to be believed about a digitally-edited painting that I made a few hours before writing this article (and consider to be a “failure”).
The full-size painting will be posted here in early February, but here’s a reduced-size preview:
Ironically, it actually looks mildly better at a lower resolution. But, the proportions are wrong and my attempts to make the background look more interesting (via digital editing) have actually made it even more boring!
Still, if experience has taught me anything, there’s a significant chance that other people will actually like it. Every artist has probably experienced something like this once or twice. We make what we think is a failed painting, only for other people to really like it (either online or in real life
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Face your painting skills
A little bit of inspiration can go a long way. If you need a little inspiration I advise you read this article.
Stop saying you can’t paint or draw. Find some known or unknown friends and get together in a painters group. Never mind if you have not painted before. Just get yourselves some painting or drawing materials.
Then you set up a drawing or painting session and start painting. If you don’t know what to draw or paint, find out something together and see how different you can interpret the motif.
We did this in my painters group Pink Bucket.
First we drew a face. One of us did the cheek and forehead, one did hair and nose and others eyes and so on.
Then we decided to paint/draw our own interpretations of this facelines. To color it in we used these things to choose colors and patterns for our faces.
You can see a frog shoe, a hat with a ribbon, a basket, a green little chain on the basket…
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Daily Art Timeout for Art #26
Today’s offering entitled “Blue Vase and Buds” is a digital doodle I did while killing some time. I like it because the simplicity and design of the drawing. I have come to like playing with digital but am along way from being proficient at creating the art pieces.
